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Exclusive Books has chosen 'The Great Trek' for their HomeBru Promotion 2013!
To celebrate this achivement we will be selling the following selection of books at 50% discount if you buy 'The Great Trek' from our website. This promotion will last as long as the HomeBru promotion lasts, which is from 26th April to 21st June 2013 (T&C Apply) |
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Special Branch War
Slaughter in the Rhodesian Bush, Southern Matabeleland, 1976–1980
Ed Bird
ISBN:978-1-920143-86-2
(R350.00 + shipping)
A litany of incidental slaughter …
This searing account primarily covers Ed Bird’s Special Branch (SB) service in the Beitbridge area of southern Matabeleland, 1976–1980, encompassing Operations Repulse and Tangent of the bitter Rhodesian ‘bush war’.
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Teddy Luther’s War
The diary of a German-American in an Irish-Boer commando
Donal McCracken (ed.)
ISBN:978-1-920143-76-3
(R185.00 + Shipping)
Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came upon a slim volume. |
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The Baronet and the Savage King
The Intriguing Story of the Tati Concession
David Hilton-Barber
ISBN:978-0-620-55904-1
R165.00 + shipping)
The concession to mine gold at Tati was granted to a British baronet, Sir John Swinburne, by Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. Although called by colonial imperialists as a “savage king” and a “native despot”, Lobengula was “exceedingly well-made (in height about 6 ft 10 inches), corpulent, with a commanding presence and, when in a good temper, having a kind heart and a full appreciation of humour”.
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Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War
Tales from ‘The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars’ - Second Edition
Rob Milne
ISBN:978-1-920143-69-5
(R250.00 + shipping)
A kaleidoscope of human-interest stories exposing long-kept secrets, mysteries and heroics for the first time
Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo–Boer War stories from all over South Africa and recounts them in a book that saddens, mystifies, but most of all entertains. |
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Africa’s Commandos
The Rhodesian Light Infantry
Mark Adams & Chris Cocks
ISBN:978-1-920143-59-6
Paperback (R499 + Shipping)
Hardback (R650.00 + shipping)
Limited Numbered Leather Bound Edition
(R2, 000.00 + shipping) - for orders contact office@30degreessouth.co.za
The RLI … killing machine extraordinaire
Few, if any, regiments have left their mark on the history of modern warfare as did the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Raised on 1 February 1961 the RLI first evolved into a commando unit then became involved in mundane border-control duties in the Zambezi Valley. |
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Stories from the Field
YDF Footprint in Africa
Youth Development Football (YDF) & Prof. Cora Burnett, University of Johannesburg
ISBN:978-1-920143-77-0
(R265.00 + Shipping)
‘The benefit of teaching life skills is that I also changed. If I can make a difference in the life of just one child, I will be happy’
When we think about Africa, we often recall pictures of a wild countryside, rivers, forests, deserts, buzzing markets and media stories of poverty, devastation and hunger – a prime continent where branches of human justice are still thin and often absent. |
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Winds of Destruction
The autobiography of a Rhodesian combat pilot
P.J.H. Petter-Bowyer
ISBN:978-0-954849-03-0
R350.00 + shipping)
Winds of Destruction is a unique account of one man’s service in the Rhodesian Air Force, spanning a period of twenty-three years from 1957 to 1980—through the politically turbulent years of Federation; the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (U.D.I.) by Ian Smith’s government in 1965 and thirteen years of relentless, uncompromising bush warfare against the never-ending tide of Robert Mugabe’s and Joshua Nkomo’s ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. |
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